Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
store is about 40 x 150 feet and his stock of
pianos 70 to 90 uprights and grands, exclusive
of renting stock.
THE H. M. BRAINARD CO.,
Cleveland.
H. M. Brainard, President of the H. M. Brain-
ard Co., was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October
30th, 1844. Served in the War of the Rebellion
HENRY M. BRAINARD.
in 103d Ohio Infantry. He was a member of
the firm of S. Brainard & Sons, and after death
ofS. Brainard, in 1871, he remained with that
concern up to 1884, when the firm of H. M.
Brainard & Co. was formed and in 1889 was in-
corporated under the Ohio State laws. The
company do a large business in pianos and
organs, being agents for the Chickering, Hazel-
ton, J. & C. Fischer and Hallett &' Cumston
pianos and the Mason & Risch vocalion.
F. H. Putnam, Secretary and Treasurer of the
H. M. Brainard Co., was born in Madison, N.
Y., in 1856. Came to Cleveland in 1872, since
which time he has been connected with the
Brainard house, having been Secretary and Treas-
urer of the H. M. Brainard Co. since its incor-
poration. He is a piano salesman of ability and
enlarged to about double their capacity at that
time. At present the firm conducts one of the
largest retail musical merchandise businesses in
Detroit. Their piano business, which is run on
the conservative plan, is large, and the line of
instruments includes the Weber, Lindeman,
Ivers & Pond and Newby & Evans pianos, and
Wilcox & White symphonies.
Mr. J. Henry Ling, 29 years of age, purchased
the business from Conrad Ling in 1889, and is
the present proprietor.
NATHAN FORD,
St. Paul.
Nathan Ford was born in 1849 i fl Aleppo,
Syria, being the son of a missionary, and came
to America in 1863. After pursuing a partial
course at Beloit College, he commenced his
career as a teacher in the public schools of Free-
port and Lena, 111., and afterward established
Yankton Academy, at Yankton, Dak. He
entered the music business in 1874 at
Yankton, S. D., and was connected with Story
& Camp (now Estey & Camp), for seven
years, first as a dealer in Yankton and after
ward as a salesman and correspondent, and
finally as the manager of their St. Louis hoiise,
in the years 1880 and 188 r. In 1881 he resigned
his position with Story & Camp and came to St.
Paul, starting in business on his own account,
and handling from the start the Knabe, Vose,
Fischer pianos, and the Clough & Warren
organs. Since that time he has also handled the
with a full stocked music store. Has always
been considered an authority on musical matters,
and has become widely known in this section
through the organization, " Hunt's Orchestra,"
which has been called to every town of import-
ance for hundreds of miles around to furnish
music for various occasions. Has conducted
business alone with the exception of the years
1.877 and 1878 when he was associated with O.
W. O. HUNT.
F. Berdan, now of Detroit, under the firm name
of Berdan & Hunt.
Occupies a three-story
building, and carries Ivers Evans, Shaw, and other pianos, and has a very
large organ trade. This business has been pur-
chased recently by Grinnell Bros., Detroit.
L. A. BAKER,
Lansing.
For over twenty years Mr. Baker has been
identified with the music business and well de-
serves his reputation of being a leader in his
line in the city of Lansing, Mich., his experi-
ence in and judgment of musical merchandise
entitling him to that distinction. He handles
the A. B. Chase, Bush & Gerts, Brown & Simp-
son, and other celebrated makes of pianos, and
NATHAN FORD.
F. U. PUTNAM.
very popular among the musical people of Cleve-
land.
The Brainard house was established in 1836
by S. Brainard, and has been prominent in
the music trade of Ohio ever since that year.
J. HENRY LING,
Detroit.
This house was established in 1864 by Conrad
Ling, an organ and melodeon manufacturer. In
1887 the quarters were enlarged to three times
their original size. In 1891 they were again
Decker Bros., Hardman, and A. B. Chase pianos,
until the present year.
The Nathan Ford Music Company was organ-
ized as a stock company in March, 1890. The
present officers of the company are Nathan Ford,
President, Joseph Lockey, Vice-President, Her-
bert Fox, Treasurer, and Geo. C. Grant, Secretary.
The Company have recently made the Con-
ovtr pianos their leader and are having excellent
success in pushing the sale of these beautiful in-
struments through the Northwest. The Nathan
Ford Music Company have always controlled a
refined trade in St. Paul, which has been steadily
augmenting year by year. Their new and ele-
gant building is one of the architectural attrac-
tions of the city of St. Paul.
W. O. HUNT,
Adrian.
W. O. Hunt, of Adrian, Mich., better known
as " Ollie " Hunt, is perhaps one of the best-
known music men in the State, having just
completed his twentieth year of business. A
native of the above city, after finishing school,
went immediately to a factory where he became
thoroughly practical and then launched forth
I,. A. HAKER.
the A. B. Chase, Newman Bros., Sterling and
other popular organs. Mr. Baker also carries a
stock of small musical instruments, sheet music
and the various other items comprised in the
music store. The store is handsomely appointed
and well adapted to the business, and Mr. Baker
is at all times enabled to supply his customers
with any article in the music line at prices im-
possible to be duplicated in this market. Mr.
Baker has the reputation of doing always just as
he agrees and adheres closely to the one-price
system.